The Lake Charles echo., 1887-01-22

There y O faseiDati0n ABOUT religloh
thai eaptivates every convert.
An educated public sentiment is
feeling and truth in harmony.
No man has ever yet regretted
yielding to the claims of ofreligion.
There are 100000 converted Jews
to the christian religion in the world
to-day
Christ is the end Of the law for
righteousness TO every one that be-
licveth.
If ] thought this.li was all Of me,
] would dispise my Maker. ] could
then afford 10 curse him TO his face.
Pleasure must first have the warrant
that It is without sin then, the meas
nre, that is without excess.-Adants
Man mnst work. He may work
gfudgiDgly or gratefully. He may
work as man or as machine
Henry Giles.
We may contemn, despise and loath
thing, but we will never know what
it is to hate till one of us shall behold
Gods face unreconciled.
Pull d sin mp root and all On The
tip end Of the tap root is germ, the
origin Of that sin. The name Of this
germ is--selfshpess.
The real things are inside. The
real world is the inside world. God
is not mp, nor down. but in the midst.
Hrs. n. d. r. Whitney
If you are professed christian and
not at work for Christ, you should be
regarded as a religious tramp. That
is, yon are void of true manliness.
Our revenue may derive some nm
holy benefit from the sale of alchohol,
but the entire trade is nevertheless a
covenant with sin and death.-LoRdon
Telegraph.
You are following your affections.
Cultivate yonr affections and you will
go right. Leave your affections to
grow as wild plant and you are snre
to do wrong.
Let patience have her perfect work
and bring forth her celestial fruits.
Trust to God to weave your thread
into the great web, though the pat
tern elbows it not yet.--George Mac.
donald.
One Of the best things in the gospel
Of Jesus is the stress II LAYS on small
things. 1t ascribes more value to
quality than TO quantity. It teaches
that God does not ask how much we
do, but how we do 1t.
Government slould surely come in
to court with clean hands for how
can they safely condemn a poor wretch
to be hanged for a crime committed in
the raging drunkenness to winch they
have themselves ministered. BEE DR..
Edgar.
You may love your child, sympa.
thize with it,, etc., simply as an act of
animal instinct. SO may a brute love
her offspring. You may care foryour
child from sense of responsibility.
The latter leads you to look out for
the possibilities beyond the grave.
i is astonishing to note the extent
to which Westminster Abbey has been
used NJ 4 burying place. Thirteen
English kings and fourteen English
queens are buried there the first king
thus honored is Scbert, King of the
East Saxons, who died July, 616; the
last, George H., who died Oct. 25,
1850.
Rev DIR. Haygood, o representative
of liberal and cultured thought in the
South, before the National Prisor
Congress, in session at Atlanta, Ga.
delivered a strong attack on the con,
vict lease system. The subject is re.
ceiying a large share Of attention al
over the South, and il is probable thai
public opinion will soon effect its
abolition.
The Christian saws: "Wlat hinge
responsibility does this cast upon Eng
land TO whom much is given, O
them much shall be required, anf
when We read that only Gl, 100000 il
subscribed 10 missions, or about a hun
dred times less than we spend upor
drink, It is not without deep shame
that we can look upon opr national
wealth.
The love of the world takes away
from men desire after and relish for
heavenly things. None of the hidden
guests were kept away by any occu-
patton ID itself sinful, while yet all
became SINFUL because allowed 10 inter
fere with higher objects, because the
fitst place, instead Of a place merely.
subordinate, is given 10 them.--Arch-
bishop Trench.
The New Orleans Christian -AdVo.
cate has this on the pro rata method
some people have Of robbing God :;
"The Protestant Episcopal Church pro
posed 10 raise ono million dollars ID.
five dollar subscriptions, and TO place
the same upon the secretaFy's table at
the aRenipg Of the late Consention
esai w1en HE amount WAS counted, IL
haa 1saehea only $4,000. That five
fqIlaF nyeFage did tie business, ana ii
VIII always KIN any collection. The
prapossilentha man worth fhonsantsa !
ei aellaFe shall be asoraaea down IL
BY beneyolence NJ the limit 81 Hvc Il
enough 10 make the devil lirneel
elluelEle At the ingenious slmpliciiy D
the thing. Satan projected shat pr,
Eata idea into THO realm Of beneyolenet
and lid watches isa freaks with ger
niue glec. Out upon it As CO
hath pfoepered him, let each one give
Is tlle only rule by which to give, an
1t il llie ouly rule By which AL giveI
win u judged. Nay God wake u
fhe man WHO measures bis giving b
another mane povertyip Every wor
ef wisicii We eontnepd. Christian gi,